HEY! Anyone ever hear of this "Project D.U." before?

[Up2Late]

"Project D.U." Presented by AT&T!



<http://www.projectdu.com/>

I smell a lawsuit!
(against AT&T that is)

Or not, what do you think of this or probable out come of leagle action?

[seriousstan]

1. First I would spell "leagle"....legal. That always helps in court.

[Up2Late]

5. oops, I added that part last, must have forgot the spell check...

...that's one of those word that i never seem to get right.:P

[bananas]

2. whois says it's owned by AT&T

Registrant:
AT&T Inc.
175 East Houston Street
San Antonio, TX 78205-2255
US

Domain Name: PROJECTDU.COM

Administrative Contact:
Nelson, John [e-mail]
AT&T Services Inc.
240 N Meridian - Room 280
Indianapolis, IN 46204
US
317-265-1482

Technical Contact:
Support, DNS [e-mail]
AT&T Services, Inc.
801 Chestnut St.
St. Louis, MO 63101
US
317-265-1482

Record expires on 03-Sep-2008.
Record created on 03-Sep-2004.
Database last updated on 5-Nov-2006 20:58:18 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.ATTDNS.COM
NS2.ATTDNS.COM
NS3.ATTDNS.COM

[bananas]

3. "Digital Universe" - an SBC hip-hop portal launched in 2004

http://www.rachelandthecity.com/2004/11/scenestars_mention_in_wsj.php

November 12, 2004
Scenestars Mention In WSJ

Yesterday I was woken up by a call from a reporter from the Wall Street Journal. He was doing a story on Project D.U. and wanted to interview me about my involvement in the project. I was excited to talk to him about SBC and Scenestars. Then I woke up this morning and read the story. It seems with every interview I've done, they take the lamest sentence I utter and stick it at the end of the story. At least they linked our site in the sidebar.

If you wanna read the article and don't want to register, make the jump.

SBC Attempts to Craft a Hip Image

By BRIAN STEINBERG
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
November 12, 2004; Page B6

Telecommunications giant SBC Communications is trying to shake off its old-school image as a dowdy provider of phone service by tapping into the new-frontier power of Weblogs.

The company in September quietly launched a Weblog portal located at www.projectdu.com and known as "Project D.U." -- the initials stand for "Digital Universe." Surfers are greeted by links to such categories as "music" and "entertainment," which in turn lead people to about 30 Weblogs, those quirky but burgeoning Web-based diaries of commentary and opinion, also known as blogs. Project D.U. carries a reminder that it is "presented by SBC."

<snip>

Write to Brian Steinberg at [e-mail]
Posted by Rachel at November 12, 2004 10:11 AM

[C_U_L8R]

4. shhhhh we don't want the freepers finding out about it

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